Stories of Predation (Black & White): 60 Years of Watching Wildlife, Dick Dekker
Автор: Dick Dekker Название: Stories of Predation (Colour): 60 Years of Watching Wildlife ISBN: 0888394381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780888394385 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 51470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Sixty years ago, Dick Dekker immigrated from one of the smallest countries in Europe to the second-largest country in the world- Canada. Dreaming of Canadas wilderness, he risked his life to find wolves and spent half a century watching eagles and falcons for which his native Holland had become too small to support. The ancient maxim that nature is red in tooth and claw, attributed to Shakespeare, is still true today. But rather than just concentrating on the predators, Dekkers focus is also on the prey species, how deer, ducks, and sandpipers manage to cope with their peril. Hiking and camping in Jasper National Park, he was first to describe that the return of wolves had led to the restoration of the ecological balance between vegetation, grazing elk, and wolves, with beneficial side effects for the intertwined lives of beavers and other wildlife. His insights became the inspiration for what has since become known as a trophic cascade in Yellowstone. Dekkers detailed studies of the hunting tactics of Peregrine Falcons on ocean coasts and inland lakes are unprecedented. He has recorded more prey captures by wild falcons than anyone else in the published literature. His discoveries and unique observations are narrated in simple yet evocative prose the reader can identify with.
Автор: Keim Brandon Название: The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World ISBN: 1501707728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501707728 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould, and David Quammen, reporting from the frontiers of science while celebrating the natural world’s wonders and posing new questions about our relationship to the rest of life on Earth.
The stories in The Eye of the Sandpiper are arranged in four thematic sections. Each addresses nature through a different lens. The first is evolutionary and ecological dynamics, from how patterns form on butterfly wings to the ecological importance of oft-reviled lampreys. The second section explores the inner lives of animals, which science has only recently embraced: empathy in rats, emotions in honeybees, spirituality in chimpanzees. The third section contains stories of people acting on insights both ecological and ethological: nourishing blighted rivers, but also caring for injured pigeons at a hospital for wild birds and demanding legal rights for primates. The fourth section unites ecology and ethology in discussions of ethics: how we should think about and behave toward nature, and the place of wildness in a world in which space for wilderness is shrinking.
By appreciating the nonhuman world more fully, Keim writes, "I hope people will also act in ways that nourish rather than impoverish its life—which is, ultimately, the problem that needs to be solved at this Anthropocene moment, with a sixth mass extinction looming, once-common animals becoming rare, and Earth straining to support 7.5 billion people. The solution will come from a love of nature rather than chastisement or lamentation."
Автор: Bogumila Jedrzejewska; Wlodzimierz Jedrzejewski Название: Predation in Vertebrate Communities ISBN: 3642083846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642083846 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 243800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Название: Cry Wolf: Inquest Into the True Nature of a Predator ISBN: 0889777446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780889777446 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 98650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Required reading for anyone invested in our shared future with these powerful and complex creatures." —John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a wolf attack near his work camp. Part story, part forensic analysis, Cry Wolf examines this and other attacks, showing how we fail to take this apex predator seriously at our own peril. "A crucial and timely examination of our shifting relationship to the land in general and the Canis lupus in particular." —Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster "Insightful . . . . Johnson eloquently argues that Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the wisdom of Indigenous people can help us better understand the true nature of predators such as wolves." —Cristina Eisenberg, PhD, author of The Wolfs Tooth and The Carnivore Way
Название: Cry Wolf: Inquest Into the True Nature of a Predator ISBN: 0889777381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780889777385 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 18570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Required reading for anyone invested in our shared future with these powerful and complex creatures." —John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a wolf attack near his work camp. Part story, part forensic analysis, Cry Wolf examines this and other attacks, showing how we fail to take this apex predator seriously at our own peril. "A crucial and timely examination of our shifting relationship to the land in general and the Canis lupus in particular." —Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster "Insightful . . . . Johnson eloquently argues that Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the wisdom of Indigenous people can help us better understand the true nature of predators such as wolves." —Cristina Eisenberg, PhD, author of The Wolfs Tooth and The Carnivore Way
Автор: Phil Lester Название: Healthy Bee, Sick Bee: The Influence of Parasites, Pathogens, Predators and Pesticides on Honey Bees ISBN: 1776564057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781776564057 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23100.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Entomologist Phil Lester explores the wonderfully complex and sometimes brutally efficient life history of honey bees, and the problems they face in New Zealand and around the globe. What causes a beehive to collapse? Are pesticides as big a problem as they appear? What can we do to improve the health?
In Producing Predators Michael D. Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history of these antipredator programs was significant not only for their ecological effects but also for their enduring cultural legacies of colonialism in the Northern Rockies.
By targeting wolves and other wild carnivores for extermination, cattle ranchers disavowed the predatory labor of raising domestic animals for slaughter, representing it instead as productive work. Meanwhile, federal agencies sought to purge the Blackfoot, Salish-Kootenai, and other indigenous peoples of their so-called predatory behaviors through campaigns of assimilation and citizenship that forcefully privatized tribal land and criminalized hunting and its related ritual practices. Despite these colonial pressures, Native communities resisted and negotiated the terms of their dispossession by representing their own patterns of work, food, and livelihood as productive.
By exploring predation and production as fluid cultural logics for valuing labor rather than just a set of biological processes, Producing Predators offers a new perspective on the history of the American West and the modern history of colonialism more broadly.
Автор: McOmie Grant Название: Grant`s Getaways: Guide to Wildlife Watching in Oregon ISBN: 1941821839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941821831 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 34930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Take a Walk on the Wild Side with Grant McOmie and discover that there is always something new to see in Oregon.
Many of Grant's favorite wildlife watching destinations are included in this handy guidebook and they have also been featured in the popular television Oregon travel series Grant's Getaways. This is a detailed reference book for wildlife viewing and is part of his new series of guidebooks.
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Автор: Scott Douglas Название: Wildlife Watching: Yellowstone ISBN: 1714572331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781714572335 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22990.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Kurrus Jeff Название: Have You Seen Mary? ISBN: 0991638905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991638901 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 9140.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Michael Forsberg Photography
“. . . and the sky blackened with dark, gray bodies. In the blurry confusion, John lost Mary.” So begins Have You Seen Mary?, Jeff Kurrus’s fictional account of one sandhill crane’s faithful search during spring migration for his lost mate. Set on Nebraska’s Platte River, this tenderly woven story of love is also a stirring introduction to these majestic birds, replete with Michael Forsberg’s radiant color photographs. This book will appeal to all ages, for it both entertains and educates readers about sandhill cranes.
Автор: Sherwonit Bill Название: Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska`s Wildlife ISBN: 1941821359 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941821350 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Essays of memorable, astonishing-and in some instances, life-changing-encounters with wild animals. A reminder that nature`s wondrous wild surrounds us all the time, wherever we live, if we`ll only open our senses and pay attention.
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